Monthly Archives: October 2009

Ubiquity History

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I updated the code of the pre­vi­ous exper­i­ment (Shar­ing Ubi­quity Com­mands) such that when you open an URL that con­tains a shared Ubi­quity action, it won’t open Ubi­quity in pre­view mode, but dis­play a small icon.

This also allows to dis­play mul­tiple com­mands on one page, and by using Ubi­quity annota­tion data­base I could cre­ate this com­mand his­tory; such that when you revisit a page where you had already applied some ubi­quity com­mands you will see the icons for each, await­ing re-​applying. Con­tinue reading →

“I, Robot.”

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I’ve just read Cory Doctorow’s “I, Robot.” I’m stunned. There is no way I can ana­lyse it object­ively; as it renders back to life vivid bits of memor­ies from my child­hood. Let me explain.

I was born behind the so-​called “Iron Cur­tain,” been raised in a com­mun­ist soci­ety where we were taught that we were the chosen ones, that our ideo­logy was the purest and our tech­no­logy was the best. And sup­posedly — in our glor­i­ous his­tory — we inven­ted everything and the per­ver­ted cap­it­al­ists had again and again stole from us, but in the end we will prevail.

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Cyberpunk is dead.

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“Ubik helps you con­nect and share with the people in your life. Your friends will say, Christ, I used to think that you weren’t fun. But now, wow! — Safe when your pri­vacy set­tings match your level of com­fort, do not for­get to review them often. Avoid pro­longed use.”

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